Regulatory czar: Adult dog more 'rational' than baby
President Obama's newly confirmed administrator of the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs has several times quoted approvingly from an author who likened animals to slaves and argued an adult dog or a horse is more rational than a human infant and should therefore be granted similar rights.

Shocking Video! ACORN helps Pimp and Prostitute get Home Loan GOP Renews
Officials with the controversial community organizing group ACORN were secretly videotaped offering to assist two individuals posing as a pimp and a prostitute.

ACORN Workers Face Charges of Alleged Voter Registration Fraud in Florida
Federal and state authorities in Miami are still searching for five of the 11 people suspected of falsifying information on hundreds of voter registration cards -- including registering the name of the late actor Paul Newman -- the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

Venezuela's Chavez draws closer to Moscow
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez cemented a closer alliance with Russia on Thursday, recognizing two pro-Russian rebel regions of Georgia as independent and securing arms supplies and loans in return. Chavez's move to recognize Abkhazia and South Ossetia is a rare diplomatic success for Russia, which has tried for over a year to persuade its allies to follow its lead and treat the two small regions as sovereign. Only Nicaragua had agreed so far.

Swiss topple U.S. as most competitive economy
Switzerland knocked the United States off the position as the world's most competitive economy as the crash of the U.S. banking system left it more exposed to some long-standing weaknesses, a report said on Tuesday.

The August Jobs Report
While the deterioration of the labor market has slowed, jobs are still being lost. The predictions that were used to promote the stimulus bill have proven false as unemployment continues to climb. Replacing private ingenuity and innovation with government-directed projects is not a solution for short-term or long-term growth. Policymakers should focus on encouraging private capital investment and formation by extending the 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. Future stimulus expenditures should be curtailed as they are not worth the long-term debt they will incur.

Stratfor: Terrorists Shifting Focus to Soft Targets
Terrorists are aiming for hotels and other easier-to-hit targets as security measures at military and government facilities continue to improve, says a global intelligence company. Al-Qaida is changing from a centralized organization with global goals to regional "franchises" with more parochial aims and strong grass-roots support, according to a report Tuesday from STRATFOR. These smaller cells get less training and less money, so they set their sights lower. A hotel is the ultimate soft target for Islamic extremists: a fixed location, lots of human traffic and shallow security perimeters. Hotels also attract many Westerners, giving militants high probabilities of killing or injuring large numbers of them in a single attack, according to the report. Despite the increasing attacks in hotels, the report says many owners and managers have been reluctant to equip their buildings with more security measures, which can be cumbersome and inconvenience guests. But that mentality may have to change. An attorney representing the victims of a hotel attack in 2004 has demanded that the owner accept responsibility for the security and belongings of its guests. "Terrorism-related liability considerations, which could be called a hushed concern among hotel industry insiders since Sept. 11, are becoming a much more prominent issue," the report says.

Obama DHS nominee omitted ties to biotech company
President Obama's nominee at the Department of Homeland Security overseeing bioterrorism defense has served as a key adviser for a lobbying group funded by the pharmaceutical industry that has asked the government to spend more money for anthrax vaccines and biodefense research. But Dr. Tara O'Toole, whose confirmation as undersecretary of science and technology is pending, never reported her involvement with the lobbying group called the Alliance for Biosecurity in a recent government ethics filing. The alliance has spent more than $500,000 lobbying Congress and federal agencies including Homeland Security since 2005, congressional records show.

Still Bitter: White House Says Secret Service Won’t Allow Santelli in Meeting?
It's been nearly seven months since CNBC reporter Rick Santelli took a stand against the Obama administration, which inspired the tea party movement - and the White House hasn't forgotten. Gibbs had invited Santelli coffee to discuss the plan, but Gibbs said the Secret Service probably wouldn't have allowed Santelli now. "You know what, almost seven months have passed since Feb. 19 and a couple of things," Santelli said in response to Gibbs comments on CNBC's Sept. 4 "Power Lunch." "You know what - I will come if they invite me for a cup of coffee. I was a little surprised that he said the Secret Service wouldn't allow it. I don't understand that."

First Time! White House to fly Red Chinese flag
The administration of President Barack Obama, whose official blogger while Obama was a candidate came under attack for hanging a Communist Party flag in his Harvard apartment, apparently has given permission to raise the emblem of Communist China over the south lawn of the White House. The plan, reported by several English-language Chinese media outlets, has raised concern among those who are working to guard the United States from outside influences that could be threats. According to the Global Times English-language edition, the national flag of the communist People's Republic of China on Sept. 20 will be raised for the first time on the White House's south lawn – a secured area seldom available for public events – in recognition of the Chinese anniversary.

Sen. Baucus: Fine Families $3,800 for Failure Get Health Insurance!!!
A top senator is calling for fines of up to $3,800 on families who fail to get medical insurance after a health care overhaul goes into effect. The plan from Democratic Sen. Max Baucus of Montana would make health insurance mandatory, just like auto coverage.

France’s Socialized Medicine on the Verge of Economic Collapse
France must make big changes to its health system in order to cut waste and increase efficiency, a government-commissioned report is warning. Okay, America you sure you still want to do Socialized Medicine?

Too Much Government Makes Us Sick
While Congress is busy working on health care reform, policy-makers are reluctant to admit that many of our nation’s health problems are linked to practices subsidized by taxpayers. An American diet heavily dependent on corn and corn-derivatives is linked to obesity, coronary heart disease, high blood pressure, Type II-Diabetes, constipation, joint pain, and other ailments. The tragic irony is that government subsidizes the low-cost production of the corn-based, unhealthy foods that make many people sick. Now the Obama administration wants to give these same policy-makers responsibility for our health care.

Obama 'green jobs' Czar quits amid controversy
President Barack Obama's adviser Van Jones has resigned amid controversy over past inflammatory statements, the White House said early Sunday. Jones, an administration official specializing in environmentally friendly "green jobs" with the White House Council on Environmental Quality was linked to efforts suggesting a government role in the 2001 terror attacks and to his memberships in Communist Party groups.

Anti-cop mission drawn up by Black Panther group
Van Jones, President Obama's controversial environmental adviser, signed a petition calling for nationwide "resistance" against police, accusing them of using the 9/11 attacks to carry out policies of torture. The petition was organized by the October 22nd Coalition, an anti-police organization whose mission statement was drawn up by leaders of the radical Black Panther Collective for Social Progress.

What does Pelosi think of Van Jones?
Let’s see what House Speaker Nancy Pelosi thinks of Van Jones, the admitted Communist and member of anti-government groups who recently resigned as Obama’s Green Czar.

Gun Owners' Next Victory in D.C.
Prediction: The courts will (and should) invalidate Washington's unconditional ban on carrying, as well as similar bans in Wisconsin and Illinois, the only two states to have such bans. Regulations consistent with the Heller opinion will be permitted. But the Supreme Court has affirmed that the Second Amendment secures an individual right, expressly enumerated in the Constitution. That means government has the burden of demonstrating that its proposed regulations are necessary.

Bailing out banks is socialism for the rich
Today we will learn further details of what could turn out to be the greatest act of grand larceny in history: the US treasury secretary, Henry Paulson's, trillion-dollar bailout of the US banks. Following last week's crash, the US government has decided to use taxpayer money to buy up all the bad mortgage debts of the banks and investment houses and insurance companies and let them start again with a clean sheet. In other words, save them from the consequences of their own folly. Nothing similar is yet proposed here, but it will. The Bad Bank bailout is a bad idea. If the bankers get away with this we really will be one step from serfdom. I'm someone who has always tended to the left of the political spectrum, but on this issue I side with the American conservatives, such as Republican Congressman John Culberson, who are saying that this is socialism for the rich. Congress has no right bailing out private investors with money pledged in advance from the children and grandchildren of American citizens.

Feds to Hire 600,000 Employees by 2012
600,000 over three years! 273,000 deemed mission-critical. That’s how many people the Partnership for Public Service projects the federal government will need to hire by 2012 to fill growing needs as well as replacing a baby-boomer workforce set to retire.

Corruption Probe in NYC
At least six inspectors with the New York City's Department of Buildings have been videotaped taking bribes at construction sites, and some were seen dealing cocaine and prescription pills. The workers, some of whom allegedly have ties to the Luchese crime family, will be arrested later this month, along with about two dozen Mafioso.

Pro-Life Democrat Promises Again: No Abortion Funding Ban, No Health Care Bill
The leader of the caucus of pro-life Democrats in the House is repeating the promise he made over the summer. If the pro-abortion Democratic leaders fail to include language to prevent abortion funding in the government-run health care bill, he and his colleagues will block the legislation. That's the promise coming from Rep. Bart Stupak, a Michigan Democrat who has long been at the forefront of pro-life efforts.

New book focuses on pseudo-Catholic colleges and organizations
Dr. Anne Hendershott, a former faculty member at the University of San Diego has recently released her new book, Status Envy: the Politics of Higher Education, in which she explains that Catholic higher education is distancing itself from Catholic teaching in order to keep up with its secular counterparts. She also revealed that during her time at the university, she was one of the few pro-life faculty members.

ABC Reporter John Stossel Jumps to Fox
ABC anchor John Stossel, a libertarian whose work earned him fiercely loyal fans at the same time he caused headaches for the network, is jumping to Fox. He's trading a much bigger platform for the promise of more time on the air. Stossel will have a weekly show on the Fox Business Network, exploring libertarianism and consumer issues, and make frequent appearances on Fox News Channel.

We Are God's Masterpiece
God doesn’t make junk. You are an original masterpiece!

America's Pledge of Allegiance
Red Skelton fives us the greatest Pledge of Allegiance of all time! Every teacher should play this for there students!

Demi Moore and Ashton Kutcher's I Pledge Video
Compare the above Red Skelton Pledge with new Hollywood liberals Pledge. What a difference.

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Wizards-Cerner Gets STAR bonds for KCK Soccer Complex
The $414 million Kansas City Wizards-Cerner Office Campus is approved in KCK near the Kansas Speedway. Along with the office campus and soccer stadium, Wyandotte County Park would become the host of a soccer complex that would host regional and national tournaments. Over half of the project would be funded by private entities. STAR bond revenues from Village West would fund the stadium itself.

Kansas Speedway, Penn National to partner on casino
Penn National Gaming will replace The Cordish company and will combine casino proposals with Kansas Speedway. Cordish announced it would see its interest to Penn today. Kansas Entertainment LLC will seek permission from the Unified Government and the Kansas Lottery Commission to allow the transfer to happen. Details of the casino site and location would not change. The project totals $361 million in value and would include a resort casino. The project would still be located near the Kansas Speedway.

Kansas among states asking for Inmate Cell Phone Jamming Technology
Twenty governors have signed a letter to support legislation in Congress to allow states to jam contraband cell phones in prisons. The bipartisan legislation would enable governors to petition the Federal Communications Commission to use wireless technology to render illegal cell phones useless in prison. In a letter, the governors say thousands of illegal calls are made by prisoners each year, enabling them to continue their criminal enterprises from behind bars. The supporting governors are from Maryland, South Dakota, West Virginia, South Carolina, Kansas, Oregon, Kentucky, North Dakota, Mississippi, Iowa, Nevada, Utah, Louisiana, Illinois, Alabama, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, California and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Senator Brownback Responds to President Obama’s Healthcare Speech
U.S. Senator Sam Brownback today responded to President Obama's address to the United States Congress about health care reform.

Is Jerry Moran indecisive?
Does Congressman Jerry Moran, the Republican from Hays running against Congressman Todd Tiahrt in the 2010 GOP primary for U.S. Senate, suffer from indecisiveness? I can’t shake the experience I had covering Moran both in 2002 and 2006 when the congressman was eying a race for governor. Both times, Moran staged the most tortured, twisted, prolonged political dance I’ve ever experienced in 30 years of covering politicians. Moran was in the race, then out, then back in, then out. “I’ve never seen anything like it,” K-State political scientist Joe Aistrup burst out at one point in 2005. “He’s like the runaway groom. He gets close. But he just can’t say, ‘I do.’

Former sheriff to speak
A former Johnson County sheriff will discuss the rise of violent gangs in the metropolitan area and their potential overflow at the next Leavenworth County Republican Party Central Committee Town Hall on Sept. 14th. Currie Myers will discuss the Islamic influence within the Kansas City Metropolitan area and the rise of the Muslim Brotherhood, MS-13 and drug/gang activity.

"If Obama loves this country and respects the Constitution, he needs to knock it off with the czars and obey the Constitution,"

Congressman Mike Pence (R-IN)

Gospel - Lk 6:27-38

27 But I say to you that hear: Love your enemies, do good to them that hate you. 28 Bless them that curse you, and pray for them that calumniate you. 29 And to him that striketh thee on the one cheek, offer also the other. And him that taketh away from thee thy cloak, forbid not to take thy coat also. 30 Give to every one that asketh thee, and of him that taketh away thy goods, ask them not again. 31 And as you would that men should do to you, do you also to them in like manner. 32 And if you love them that love you, what thanks are to you? for sinners also love those that love them. 33 And if you do good to them who do good to you, what thanks are to you? for sinners also do this. 34 And if you lend to them of whom you hope to receive, what thanks are to you? for sinners also lend to sinners, for to receive as much. 35 But love ye your enemies: do good, and lend, hoping for nothing thereby: and your reward shall be great, and you shall be the sons of the Highest; for he is kind to the unthankful, and to the evil. 36 Be ye therefore merciful, as your Father also is merciful. 37 Judge not, and you shall not be judged. Condemn not, and you shall not be condemned. Forgive, and you shall be forgiven. 38 Give, and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again.

What happened to President Obama? His wax wings having melted, he is the man who fell to earth. What happened to bring his popularity down further than that of any new president in polling history save Gerald Ford (post-Nixon pardon)?

The conventional wisdom is that Obama made a tactical mistake by farming out his agenda to Congress and allowing himself to be pulled left by the doctrinaire liberals of the Democratic congressional leadership. But the idea of Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi pulling Obama left is quite ridiculous. Where do you think he came from, this friend of Chávista ex-terrorist William Ayers, of PLO apologist Rashid Khalidi, of racialist inciter Jeremiah Wright?

But forget the character witnesses. Just look at Obama's behavior as president, beginning with his first address to Congress. Unbidden, unforced and unpushed by the congressional leadership, Obama gave his most deeply felt vision of America, delivering the boldest social democratic manifesto ever issued by a U.S. president. In American politics, you can't get more left than that speech and still be on the playing field.

In a center-right country, that was problem enough. Obama then compounded it by vastly misreading his mandate. He assumed it was personal. This, after winning by a mere seven points in a year of true economic catastrophe, of an extraordinarily unpopular Republican incumbent, and of a politically weak and unsteady opponent. Nonetheless, Obama imagined that, as Fouad Ajami so brilliantly observed, he had won the kind of banana-republic plebiscite that grants caudillo-like authority to remake everything in one's own image.

Accordingly, Obama unveiled his plans for a grand makeover of the American system, animating that vision by enacting measure after measure that greatly enlarged state power, government spending and national debt. Not surprisingly, these measures engendered powerful popular skepticism that burst into tea-party town-hall resistance.

Obama's reaction to that resistance made things worse. Obama fancies himself tribune of the people, spokesman for the grass roots, harbinger of a new kind of politics from below that would upset the established lobbyist special-interest order of Washington. Yet faced with protests from a real grass-roots movement, his party and his supporters called it a mob -- misinformed, misled, irrational, angry, unhinged, bordering on racist. All this while the administration was cutting backroom deals with every manner of special interest -- from drug companies to auto unions to doctors -- in which favors worth billions were quietly and opaquely exchanged.

"Get out of the way" and "don't do a lot of talking," the great bipartisan scolded opponents whom he blamed for creating the "mess" from which he is merely trying to save us. If only they could see. So with boundless confidence in his own persuasiveness, Obama undertook a summer campaign to enlighten the masses by addressing substantive objections to his reforms.

Things got worse still. With answers so slippery and implausible and, well, fishy, he began jeopardizing the most fundamental asset of any new president -- trust. You can't say that the system is totally broken and in need of radical reconstruction, but nothing will change for you; that Medicare is bankrupting the country, but $500 billion in cuts will have no effect on care; that you will expand coverage while reducing deficits -- and not inspire incredulity and mistrust. When ordinary citizens understand they are being played for fools, they bristle.

After a disastrous summer -- mistaking his mandate, believing his press, centralizing power, governing left, disdaining citizens for (of all things) organizing -- Obama is in trouble.

Let's be clear: This is a fall, not a collapse. He's not been repudiated or even defeated. He will likely regroup and pass some version of health insurance reform that will restore some of his clout and popularity.

But what has occurred -- irreversibly -- is this: He's become ordinary. The spell is broken. The charismatic conjurer of 2008 has shed his magic. He's regressed to the mean, tellingly expressed in poll numbers hovering at 50 percent.

For a man who only recently bred a cult, ordinariness is a great burden, and for his acolytes, a crushing disappointment. Obama has become a politician like others. And like other flailing presidents, he will try to salvage a cherished reform -- and his own standing -- with yet another prime-time speech.

But for the first time since election night in Grant Park, he will appear in the most unfamiliar of guises -- mere mortal, a treacherous transformation to which a man of Obama's supreme self-regard may never adapt.